Recent reports

01 November 1997 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period from 15th September to 12th October 1997. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Rostellan (Co. Cork), 9th-12fh Oct...
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Recent BBRC Decisions

01 November 1997 Comments Editorials This monthly listing of the most-recent decisions by the British Birds Rarities Committee is not intended to be comprehensive or in any way to replace the annual 'Report on rare birds in Great Britain'. The records listed are mostly those of the rarest...
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Recent reports

01 April 1995 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 13th February to 19th March 1995. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Blue-winged Teal Anas discors Male at Tacumshin (Co. Wexford), 4th March. Lesser...
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Mystery photographs

01 April 1995 Comments Main paper It is early October and you come across a lone plover, obviously a Pluvialis, with no other waders present for comparison (plates 48 & 49 on page 195). First impressions are of a grey-and-white-spangled plover with a fairly obvious yellow tinge to ...
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Monthly marathon

01 April 1995 Comments Other Nearly everyone (91%) correctly identified the bird in plate 10 as Black-shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus, the only other species named being Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus. An even higher proportion of entrants (97%) correctly identified the wade...
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News and comment

01 April 1995 Comments News and comment Standing on the top of Sletill Hill, the view was fantastic. For early November in Caithness, the weather was no less fantastic: clear blue skies, not a breath of wind, and temperatures that almost warranted shirt sleeves. Away to the east, Loch More w...
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